This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateAttached to one of five or six tents on Waller Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood is a sign that reads: “Mayor Breed: We will gladly trade this tent for a hotel room!”That is asking a lot, but the people in the tents are also asking for less. They want to move their tents just a block west, into the parking lot at Kezar Stadium.Haight-Ashbury advocates for the homeless community are pushing the city to turn the stadium lot into a legal tent site that could fit as many as 100 tents in spaces marked to ensure social...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateAttached to one of five or six tents on Waller Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood is a sign that reads: “Mayor Breed: We will gladly trade this tent for a hotel room!”That is asking a lot, but the people in the tents are also asking for less. They want to move their tents just a block west, into the parking lot at Kezar Stadium.Haight-Ashbury advocates for the homeless community are pushing the city to turn the stadium lot into a legal tent site that could fit as many as 100 tents in spaces marked to ensure social...WW…

James Fang, a former president of the BART Board of Directors and the San Francisco Examiner and a member of a once-powerful San Francisco political and publishing family, died Friday. He was 58.His death was confirmed by a nephew and family spokesman, Sean Fang of San Mateo. Fang died of natural causes, according to a family statement.“My uncle was an amazing man,” Sean Fang said Sunday. “Even through any adversity that he faced, no matter what it may be, he always managed to keep his composure and compassion.”The Fang family at one time owned the San Francisco Independent, AsianWeek and...…James Fang, a former president of the BART Board of Directors and the San Francisco Examiner and a member of a once-powerful San Francisco political and publishing family, died Friday. He was 58.His death was confirmed by a nephew and family spokesman, Sean Fang of San Mateo. Fang died of natural causes, according to a family statement.“My uncle was an amazing man,” Sean Fang said Sunday. “Even through any adversity that he faced, no matter what it may be, he always managed to keep his composure and compassion.”The Fang family at one time owned the San Francisco Independent, AsianWeek and...WW…

Anne Halsted’s 50 years in San Francisco civics started in spectacularly unglamorous fashion: organizing a drive to rezone a sewage plant in her neighborhood. It worked.After that success, she aimed higher by founding the Telegraph Hill Historic District to preserve the 19th century housing stock. Before long, every conservation and citizenship commission in San Francisco, the Bay Area and all of California came calling.Among her distinctions was being named the first woman on the San Francisco Port Commission and serving as vice chair of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development...…Anne Halsted’s 50 years in San Francisco civics started in spectacularly unglamorous fashion: organizing a drive to rezone a sewage plant in her neighborhood. It worked.After that success, she aimed higher by founding the Telegraph Hill Historic District to preserve the 19th century housing stock. Before long, every conservation and citizenship commission in San Francisco, the Bay Area and all of California came calling.Among her distinctions was being named the first woman on the San Francisco Port Commission and serving as vice chair of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development...WW…

The SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park will start spinning again at noon Thursday and keep spinning for four more years under a controversial extension finalized by the Historic Preservation Commission on Wednesday afternoon.The commission voted 7-0 to go along with an earlier unanimous vote by the Recreation and Park Commission to extend the 150-foot-tall attraction in the Music Concourse beyond its original expiration date at the end of March.The additional four years will allow the wheel’s operator, SkyView Partners in St. Louis, to recoup an investment lost thus far, since...…The SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park will start spinning again at noon Thursday and keep spinning for four more years under a controversial extension finalized by the Historic Preservation Commission on Wednesday afternoon.The commission voted 7-0 to go along with an earlier unanimous vote by the Recreation and Park Commission to extend the 150-foot-tall attraction in the Music Concourse beyond its original expiration date at the end of March.The additional four years will allow the wheel’s operator, SkyView Partners in St. Louis, to recoup an investment lost thus far, since...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101.Ferlinghetti died Monday evening in his second-floor walk-up apartment in North Beach, where he lived for 40 years under rent control. Cause of death was a degenerative lung condition, said Nancy Peters, co-owner and retired executive director of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers.“It was my good fortune to have worked closely with him for more than 50 years,” Peters told The...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, poet, publisher, painter and pivotal figure to the Beats and about every other counterculture literary movement in San Francisco, has died at 101.Ferlinghetti died Monday evening in his second-floor walk-up apartment in North Beach, where he lived for 40 years under rent control. Cause of death was a degenerative lung condition, said Nancy Peters, co-owner and retired executive director of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers.“It was my good fortune to have worked closely with him for more than 50 years,” Peters told The...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateEarly on Sunday morning, a two-story Victorian house lurched out across five lanes of San Francisco’s Franklin Street and got snagged by a banner on a light pole.There were as many as 600 onlookers out there, cell phones raised. It was like a golf gallery with “oohs” and “aahs” accompanying every moment of peril.After 139 years at 807 Franklin St., the house was to a new home on Fulton Street. According to the San Francisco Historical Society it was the first time a Victorian had moved in 50 years, and nobody wanted to miss...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateEarly on Sunday morning, a two-story Victorian house lurched out across five lanes of San Francisco’s Franklin Street and got snagged by a banner on a light pole.There were as many as 600 onlookers out there, cell phones raised. It was like a golf gallery with “oohs” and “aahs” accompanying every moment of peril.After 139 years at 807 Franklin St., the house was to a new home on Fulton Street. According to the San Francisco Historical Society it was the first time a Victorian had moved in 50 years, and nobody wanted to miss...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 150-foot-tall SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park would stay for four more years under a plan by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, but environmental groups and some residents of the area oppose the move.The Historic Preservation Commission, an agency of the San Francisco Planning Department, will vote on the plan Wednesday. If the commission grants the requested Certificate of Appropriateness, the big Ferris wheel will operate in the park until March 2025, and will reopen as soon as San Francisco is...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 150-foot-tall SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park would stay for four more years under a plan by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, but environmental groups and some residents of the area oppose the move.The Historic Preservation Commission, an agency of the San Francisco Planning Department, will vote on the plan Wednesday. If the commission grants the requested Certificate of Appropriateness, the big Ferris wheel will operate in the park until March 2025, and will reopen as soon as San Francisco is...WW…

✕Santhosh Daniel was running the Global Film Initiative when he got a call out of the blue from San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, . Adachi wanted to talk about his idea to create a series of films that broke down the whole process of legal defense for people who cannot afford any other kind.Adachi, , never lived to see this idea through, but it was good enough to live on without him. After Adachi’s death, Daniel proposed , an initiative to create and produce original stories by public defenders and their clients that will launch Thursday, Feb. 4, in what Daniel describes as “the...…✕Santhosh Daniel was running the Global Film Initiative when he got a call out of the blue from San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, . Adachi wanted to talk about his idea to create a series of films that broke down the whole process of legal defense for people who cannot afford any other kind.Adachi, , never lived to see this idea through, but it was good enough to live on without him. After Adachi’s death, Daniel proposed , an initiative to create and produce original stories by public defenders and their clients that will launch Thursday, Feb. 4, in what Daniel describes as “the...WW…